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Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT



On 2/2/10 9:00 AM, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
---- Original Message ----
From: Peter Persson<pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>
To: "mint Mailing-List"<mint@fishpool.com>

I don't think there will be many people wiping their hard disc
to try out gentoo.
I would for sure.

-- PeP
I won't be.

Updating my basic Mint install to have an ext2 drive was scary
enough. Then later installing Easymint on top was worse. I even
tried to reduce the risk by installing it on a second drive
but Easymint didn't quite cope with that and put some stuff on
the first drive. It took several days to get it working again
and a week or two to get it sorted half decently.

Maybe you guys have several systems and are prepared to wipe
one but what if you only have one Mint install ?

Peter



Well it's just a file tree. You can easily go to the root of your ext2 fs, do mkdir old then do mv * old, then tar zxvf the tarball. Then if you don't like it just remove all the new dirs and put the old stuff back. All very easy and relatively risk free.
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'Thanks,
Mark